How to remove stud earrings after being pierced with a gun?

During a piercing with a pistol, studs are inserted into the ear - stud earrings made of medical steel or silver. They can be replaced with another piece of jewelry only after the wound has healed. If you ignore this point and put on a new piece of jewelry prematurely, the recovery time for the lobe tissue will increase significantly. The same thing will happen if the procedure for removing the studs is carried out incorrectly. So how do you remove them?

General rules for removing earrings after piercing

Recommendations and notes:

• Before starting, you need to wash your hands thoroughly (preferably with antibacterial soap);
• no need to hurry;
• processing is carried out before and after and removal;
• the use of tweezers allows you to reduce the contact of the puncture and earring with the hands, but if the hand trembles and the tweezers move crookedly, a wound with uneven edges will appear;
• You need to insert a clean, disinfected earring.

The best way to avoid the hassle of removing your first stud earring is to take responsibility for the healing process. To ensure a smooth removal procedure, follow the instructions for caring for your ear and earring. Use recommended disinfectants and wound healing agents, treat regularly and do not ignore unhealthy symptoms.

Important! In case of heavy discharge, acute pain and high temperature, you should consult a doctor, and not increase the dosage of antiseptics and take painkillers. Perhaps there is a process of rejection of the earrings or the material from which they are made.

In addition to surface treatment, more thorough treatment is also used. If the healing dynamics are positive, after about 15 days from the moment of piercing, the studs will need to be removed, thoroughly wipe them and the earlobe with a disinfectant, and then reinsert. It is theirs, and not another decoration. New earrings are used only after the end of the recovery period, which on average takes 3–8 weeks.

What earrings can I wear later?

Much depends on how many weeks have passed since the piercing and how was the healing period?. If the tissues quickly recovered, the wound did not get wet or bleed profusely, and the swelling subsided at the time specified by the master, then by the time the earring-stud is removed, the walls of the hole will be lined with more or less durable skin. It will withstand inserting jewelry of a different design than studs.

Important! The use of a fastener of a different design is acceptable, but you cannot use jewelry with a pin of a larger diameter.

If the recovery period proceeded with complications, then you need to stop on a product with a straight, short and non-curved pin, which ends with the simplest possible clasp. The new jewelry should also be made of the same material as the old one - this way the ear will get used to it faster, and the process of rejection is unlikely to start. And don't forget to pay attention to the sample. This is important, since the sample is an indicator of the presence of impurities. If there are more of them in the second decoration than in the first, then this can cause unpleasant symptoms.

Another important criterion is pin diameter. The formed channel has the size that was given to it by the gun and the subsequent wearing of studs. Therefore, you should not put on earrings whose pin is much wider than the frame of the jewelry used during the healing of the puncture wound. This will lead to the expansion of the hole by further traumatizing old and barely formed new cells.

Step by step guide on how to remove stud earrings

You need to start with a careful examination of the ear. There should be no signs of inflammation on the shell and earring: redness, swelling, discharge. Additionally, you should make sure that touching the jewelry and adjacent tissues does not cause pain.

Next we decide on the tool. If you are confident that at a crucial moment your hand will not tremble and will be able to carefully remove the stud earring with the help of an additional device, then it is worth using tweezers in the procedure. Requirements for it:

• the sides are symmetrical to each other;
• no sharp edges, only rounded ones (ideally, you should use medical tweezers, the tips of which are curved and imitate a rounded shape);
• no signs of rust, plaque, dirt;
• the metal from which the tweezers are made has hypoallergenic properties;
• The handle is comfortable and does not slip in the palm;
• Before starting the manipulation, the instrument is carefully treated with a disinfectant composition.

Further sequence of steps:

1. Wash the hands;
2. apply the antiseptic that was used to care for the wound on a cotton pad;
3. wipe the earlobe, the area next to the puncture, and the earring itself on both sides with the disc;
4. grab the front part of the earring with tweezers with rounded tips;
5. with the other hand, slowly move and remove the plug (the fixing part that is threaded onto the pin of the studs);
6. pull forward the hand in which the head of the stud earring is grasped with tweezers and thereby remove it from the puncture tunnel;
7. treat the earlobe with an antiseptic and healing agent.

Important! The use of tweezers is generally optional. The earring can be removed using your hand. Do not use your nails, as they may slip off. It would be much more correct to squeeze the head of the stud between the index finger and thumb of 1 hand.

What to do if problems arise?

Further actions after removal depend on how the procedure went. If everything is fine with your ear after removing the studs, then you should wait 1–2 hours. After this time, you can insert a new earring (don't forget to treat it before inserting it).

If unpleasant symptoms appear - severe or increasing pain in the puncture area, bloody or purulent discharge, swelling - you will have to wear the old jewelry. Most likely, the healing process has not yet been completed, hence the unpleasant manifestations. You need to give your ear more time.

Important! It is impossible to leave an unhealed puncture without an earring for a long time. This can lead to the hole becoming overgrown. In the future, an attempt to insert the jewelry into the ear will result in serious injury to the canal.

If the problem is caused not by the condition of the ear, but by the immobility of the stud from which the plug was removed, then you need to proceed as follows:

1. Try to soak the formations on the hidden part of the earring. Discharge from the wound accumulates, hardens and turns into strong enough clots that do not allow the jewelry to move from its place. To get rid of them, soak a cotton pad in alcohol or hydrogen peroxide and repeatedly apply its clean part to the entrance area of ​​the puncture channel. Important! You can soak the formations in the bath, but this method is less hygienic and reliable.
2. Call another person for help. He will examine the ear and the earring he is wearing from the outside and will be able to see what is inaccessible to the wearer of the jewelry.
3. If the problem is caused by a strong curvature of the back of the stud pin, then you need to take small pliers - used when working with wire - and use them to bite off the head of the decoration. It is better to sacrifice the earring than to try to remove the curved frame from a barely healed puncture and risk your own health.

These methods are resorted to only if there is confidence that the healing process has been completed and in the absence of visible signs of suppuration. If not a single measure helps, then you need to stop tormenting the auricle and contact the master who did the piercing. Under no circumstances should you forcefully tear out an earring from your ear. Is it dangerous.

Features of removing medical stud earrings from a child

You can’t explain to your baby why you should never move during a relatively painful procedure. To prevent his restless fidgeting from leading to new damage to the earlobe, do the following (choose 1 of the suggested options):

1. Contact the salon and ask to remove the earring.If the child is very sensitive, it makes sense to resort to painkillers. Its application will not cause harm, since it does not have the form of injections or tablets, but comes in the form of a spray.
2. Carry out the manipulation yourself, choosing the right moment. Ideal option: the child is fast asleep and does not react to touching himself.
3. Before removing, be sure to make sure that there are no visible signs of suppuration. Manipulating an unhealed wound will definitely wake up the baby.